{"id":17644,"date":"2010-09-06T16:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T23:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17644"},"modified":"2010-09-06T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T23:52:02","slug":"munich-river-surfing-finally-legalalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17644","title":{"rendered":"Munich River Surfing Finally Legalalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/05887758_400.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/05887758_400.jpg','popup','width=330,height=244,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/05887758_400-tm.jpg\" height=\"147\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"0,,5887758 4,00\" \/><\/a>The surfing the river (Eisbach) in Munich Germany&#8217;s English Garden is finally legal, according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,5968977,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Up until this summer, surfing in the English Garden was forbidden &#8211; at least officially. . . &#8220;There were times when we really had problems with the police,&#8221; said 42-year-old veteran surfer <strong>Carsten Kurmis<\/strong>. &#8220;We lost the joy of surfing because we&#8217;d have to keep one eye on the wave and one eye on the street in case an officer came.&#8221; . . Calls to better enforce the surfing ban increased in 2007 after an Australian student drowned while surfing in the river. But Munich&#8217;s mayor <strong>Christian Ude<\/strong> personally intervened to make sure qualified people could still ride the waves. . . Now around 200 experienced river riders have registered for access to the city&#8217;s so-called Eisbach, or &#8220;icy brook.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like Munich has a pretty cool mayor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,5968977,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surfing the river (Eisbach) in Munich Germany&#8217;s English Garden is finally legal, according to a story on Deutsche Welle. Up until this summer, surfing in the English Garden was forbidden &#8211; at least officially. . . &#8220;There were times when we really had problems with the police,&#8221; said 42-year-old veteran surfer Carsten Kurmis. &#8220;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17645,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644\/revisions\/17645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}